Air Greenland cuts Nuuk-Iqaluit scheduled flights in 2015

Air Greenland says it will not run a scheduled routebetween Nuuk and Iqaluit this summer.

Air Greenland re-established the route between Iqaluit andNuukin 2012, but ChristianKeldsen, the airline's chief commercialofficer, says there hasn't been the expected interest from tourists or the mining and oil and gas sectors.

"We've seen very little growth, very little demand over the past three years and with the current financial situation, we decided not to file a schedule for 2015," saidKeldsen.

Last fall, Keldsen said the route couldn't continue without some type of support from the governments of Nunavut and Greenland. He says that hasn't come through.

Still, he said Air Greenland is keeping all of its permits in place and hasn't ruled out a return of the route in 2016if the situation improves.

Instead of a two-hour flight across the Davis Strait, people will now have to travel twoto three days to get to Greenland from Iqaluit.

Air Greenland will continue to offer charter flights between the two regions.